WATCH: Southern Fail The Musical premieres in Sussex

Passengers have turned their misery into music, telling the tragic story of two passengers travelling from London to the county.

The Treason Show spin-off brings together artistic director Mark Brailsford and long term writer-collaborator Simon Levenson for a madcap journey through the carriages, platforms and boardrooms of the UK’s most mocked railway.

The satirical play will premiere this Friday and Saturday at the Brighton Fringe in a one-hour special, after the viral popularity of Mark Brailsford’s recent protest song “Imagine There’s No Southern”...

The ‘Imagine There’s No Southern’ song was performed at Brighton station on the first anniversary of the strikes as part of a collaboration with the Association of British Commuters.

It instantly went viral and has since had 120,000 views and a total reach of over a quarter of a million.

Mark Brailsford said: “The Treason Show has performed Southern Rail parody songs for five years already – and they have always gone down incredibly well with the audience. In the last eighteen months of the crisis however, the reaction has been intense and anger pronounced.

"The Southern Rail crisis is one of those rare political issues that has affected absolutely everyone in our community - whether daily commuter, local business or part-time passenger. I don’t know anyone in Brighton who has managed to avoid the damage it has done.”

Simon Levenson said: “I suffered the daily journey from Hove to Croydon throughout 2016 so was not lacking in inspiration when writing the show! When the circumstances around you are that absurd, it really just lends itself to satire.

"Commuters won’t forget any part of this crisis in a hurry and we really felt they deserved a bit of comedy relief and catharsis.”